Posted on 04/01/2019 10:15:11 AM PDT by billorites
Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, thumbed their noses at the victims of Venezuelan atrocities last week with an official trip to Cuba—the first ever by a member of the British royal family.
The Castro regime enthusiastically circulated photographs of the British delegation in front of a Che Guevara icon in Havana, a tired and gimmicky invocation of 1960s radical chic that’s even more farcical in the 21st century.
Under Castro rule since 1959, Cuba has gone from being one of the most developed countries in Latin America to a low-rent tourist destination famous for child prostitution, crime, poverty and political prisoners. Communists did this in the name of equality. Images of the “revolutionary” military dictatorship’s elite celebrating a pampered Englishman who epitomizes birthright privilege are beyond parody.
If Prince Charles wanted good publicity, his timing couldn’t have been worse. Days earlier, Luis Almagro, secretary-general of the Organization of American States, held a Washington press conference to receive a detailed update on widespread torture and other crimes against humanity in Venezuela. Cuba, the report shows, plays an outsize role in these horrors.
Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro remains in power thanks to Cuba’s expertise in repression. Instruments of terror include Cuba-trained secret police and paramilitary
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Cuba, along with its longtime partner Russia, is still motivated by imperialist dreams as Havana and Moscow recover from the reverses suffered with the collapse of the Soviet empire. In Venezuela these dreams have spawned a diabolical mix of misery and savagery
The civilized world wants to restore Venezuelan democracy without more bloodshed. But unified international pressure, not only on Venezuela but on Cuba, is necessary to avoid military intervention. When Britain’s heir to the throne jets off to make common cause with the despots, he undermines the cause of peace.
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To execute a man*, we don’t need proof of his guilt. We only need proof that it’s necessary to execute him. It’s that simple.” — Ernesto Che Guevara
*Che was equal opportuntiy. He had zero problem killing women, white, brown and Black Cubans.
His Royal Chuckness visits where the UK government wants him to visit. Why did the government want him to go to Cuba?
King Charles, the Idiot. A monarch quite right for today’s Britain.
In the naive expectation that he would perhaps stay?
He’s already tried on his “guardian of the faiths” costumes. I don’t think former Britain’s islamists will buy it.
Perhaps he was sent to Cuba to scope out its exilic possibilities.
They do have a lot of our 50s & 60s cars and trucks down there, worth seeing.
They went down to enjoy a little pedophelia.
Disgusting. Prince Charles is such an idiot, but a pro-Muslim, pro-Marxist dangerous idiot. Glad somebody called him on this stunt.
Charles with be the “Pope Francis of Kings” when he ascends the throne.
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